04月27日 一年的第118天 筆者:黃哲輝牧師
讀經:詩049-051篇
第49章主要在講:「可拉後裔:神必救贖收納我的靈魂」v15。萬民、上流下流、富足貧窮,都當留心聽,我口要說智慧、我心想通達、我耳聽比喻、用琴解迷語,一.倚仗財貨自誇錢財多的人(6-14):1.無法贖自己的弟兄,叫他永遠活著,2.他必見智慧人、愚頑人滅亡,財貨留給別人,3.以自己的名稱自己的地,4.但人居尊貴不能長久,以後的人還佩服他們的話,5.死亡必作他們的牧者,正直人必管轄他們,二.神必救贖收納我的靈魂v15,三.見人發財增榮不要懼怕(16-20):1.他死的時候,不能帶走,榮耀不能隨他去,2.他活著自誇有福,仍必歸到祖宗,永不見光,3.人在尊貴中不醒悟,如死亡的畜類。
◎心得分享:這篇作者:「可拉的後裔」,作者提到「無論上流人或是下流人」都不要以財貨錢財自誇,因為死的時候都不能帶去,要緊的是依靠上帝,得到上帝的收納,才是是最重要的,保羅在提摩太前書六章17節,也提醒我們,「不要依靠無定的錢財」,提摩太前6章10節,也提到「貪財是萬惡之根。有人貪戀錢財,就被引誘離了真道,用許多愁苦把自己刺透了」,求神幫助我們懂得如何管理我們的錢財。
第50章主要在講:「亞薩的詩:神是施行審判的,當獻感恩的祭」。一.大能者神:1.發言招呼天下,2.神已經發光,3.神要來有烈火吞滅,有暴風四圍大颳,4.神決不閉口要審判他的名,神是施行審判,二.我的民以色列:1.當聽我的話,我要勸戒你,2.我是你的神,不因你的祭物責備你,樹林百獸、千山牲畜、野地都是我的,我豈吃公牛肉,豈喝山羊血,3.你們要以感謝為祭獻與神,又要向至高都還願,4.在患難之日求告我,我必搭你,你要榮耀我,三.神對惡人:1.你傳說律例和我的約,其實你恨惡管教,將我的言語丟在背後,2.你樂意與盜賊同夥,與行姦淫的人有分,3.口說惡言,舌編造詭詐,毀謗親弟兄,4.你想我和你一樣,其實我要責備你,你們忘記神,要思想免得我把你撕碎,5.以感謝為祭,便是榮耀我,按正路行,必得救恩。
◎心得分享:這章的作者:亞薩,按照歷代志上廿三章二至五節的記載,大將利未的祭司分成四班,音樂是第四班的責任。這班由二百八十八位歌唱者組成,他們再被分成廿四班次,由三位音樂師領導,他們名叫希慢、亞薩和耶杜頓。這三位音樂師領導他們的詩班用鈸來歌唱(代上十五16),本章分三段,第一個部分是講到上帝,第二個部份是選民,第三個部分是惡人,無論是選民(14)或是惡人(23),神給他們共同的話是「以感謝為祭獻給神」,對選民來說,有「感謝」,在患難之日求告神,也必蒙神搭救(15),對惡人來說,有「感謝」,就不會違背神的律例與神的約,也就不會被神撕碎,無人搭救(27),也會榮耀神,按正路行,得著救恩。
第51章主要在講:「大衛的詩:神是慈愛的,必塗抹我的過犯」。
神啊,
一.求你憐恤我塗抹我的過犯:1.按你的慈愛!2.按你豐盛慈悲!
二.求洗除淨盡潔除我的罪孽!
1.因我知我的過犯;我的罪常在我面前。
2.我向你犯罪,惟獨得罪了你;在你眼前行了這惡,以致你責備我的時候顯為公義,判斷我的時候顯為清正。
3.我是在罪孽裏生的,在我母親懷胎的時候就有了罪。
4.你所喜愛的是內裏誠實;你在我隱密處,必使我得智慧。
5.求你潔淨我用牛膝草,我就乾淨;求你洗滌我,我就比雪更白。
三.求你使我得聽歡喜快樂的聲音,使你所壓傷的骨頭可以踴躍。
四.求你掩面不看我的罪,塗抹我一切的罪孽。
五求你為我造清潔的心,使我裏面重新有正直的靈。
1.不要丟棄我,使我離開你的面;2.不要從我收回你的聖靈。
六.求你使我仍得救恩之樂,賜我樂意的靈扶持我,
1.我就把你的道指教有過犯的人,罪人必歸順你。
2.神啊,你是拯救我的神;
七.求你救我脫離流人血的罪!我的舌頭就高聲歌唱你的公義。
八.求你使我嘴唇張開,我的口便傳揚讚美你的話!
你本不喜愛祭物,若喜愛,我就獻上;燔祭,你也不喜悅。
神所要的祭就是憂傷的靈;神啊,憂傷痛悔的心,你必不輕看。
九.求你隨你的美意善待錫安,建造耶路撒冷的城牆。
那時,你必喜愛公義的祭和燔祭並全牲的燔祭;那時,人必將公牛獻在你壇上。
◎心得分享:這篇是大衛與拔示巴同室以後,先知拿單來見他,責備他犯罪之後,大衛寫的詩,他向神禱告,有九個「求」,其中他求神赦免他的罪,上帝也就赦免他,正如約壹書一章九節提到:「我們若認自己的罪,神是信實的,是公義的,必要赦免我們的罪,洗淨我們一切的不義。」,話雖說上帝赦免他,但是犯罪的結果,是非常可怕的,「死罪可逃,但是活罪就難逃」,他的兒子互殺,甚至他的兒子押撒龍,都起來要追殺他,求神幫助我們遠離試探,不要犯罪。
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"God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world."(Gal. 6:14)
THEY were living to themselves; self with its hopes, and promises and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and had surrendered for it to be given them at any cost, and He sent them sorrow; they had asked for purity, and He sent them thrilling anguish; they had asked to be meek, and He had broken their hearts; they had asked to be dead to the world, and He slew all their living hopes; they had asked to be made like unto Him, and He placed them in the furnace, sitting by "as a refiner and purifier of silver," until they should reflect His image; they had asked to lay hold of His cross, and when He had reached it to them it lacerated their hands.
They had asked they knew not what, nor how, but He had taken them at their word, and granted them all their petitions. They were hardly willing to follow Him so far, or to draw so night to Him. They had upon them an awe and fear, as Jacob at Bethel, or Eliphaz in the night visions, or as the apostles when they thought that they had seen a spirit, and knew not that it was Jesus. They could almost pray Him to depart from them, or to hide His awfulness. They found it easier to obey than to suffer, to do than to give up, to bear the cross than to hang upon it. But they cannot to back, for they have come too near the unseen cross, and its virtues have pierced too deeply within them. He is fulfilling to them His promise, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me" (John 12:32).
But now at last their turn has come. Before, they had only heard of the mystery, but now they feel it. He has fastened on them His look of love, as He did on Mary and Peter, and they can but choose to follow.
Little by little, from time to time, by fitting gleams, the mystery of His cross shines out upon them. They behold Him lifted up, they gaze on the glory which rays from the wounds of His holy passion; and as they gaze they advance, and are changed into His likeness, and His name shines out throught them, for He dwells in them. They live alone with Him above, in unspeakable fellowship; willing to lack what others own (and what they might have had), and to be unlike all, so that they are only like Him.
Such, are they in all ages, "who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth."
Had they chosen for themselves, or their friends chosen for them, they would have chosen otherwise. They would have been brighter here, but less glorious in His Kingdom. They would have had Lot's portion, not Abraham's. If they had halted anywhere-if God had taken off His hand and let them stray back-what would they not have lost? What forfeits in the resurrection?
But He stayed them up, even against themselves. Many a time their foot had well night slipped; but He in mercy held them up. Now, even in this life, they know that all He did was done well. It was good to suffer here, that they might reign hereafter; to bear the cross below, for they shall wear the crown above; and that not their will but His was done on them and in them.
-Anonymous.
基督曾說過:「我心柔和謙卑,你們當學我的樣式,這樣你們心裏就必得享安息。」這兒有雙重的真理,有忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的美德,這與傚法基督或信靠祂有相同的意義;同時因著你有這些美德,可以完全脫離亞當墮落的本性而有信靠主高尚的行為。
連帶而有的福份,是因著脫離罪惡和對基督初步信仰、期望,受基督忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好的靈引導並管理;當你具有這些德性,你的生命就有目的,是真理和生命的基督才會在你裏面,你不再掌權,而是基督在你裏面活著。除非你願在忍耐、溫柔、謙卑和與神和好裏治死老我,否則神聖愛的靈,因無立足之地而不能在你裏面產生;而當你又為不忍耐、驕傲所困擾之際,馬上完全捨己,求神施恩幫助。當你遇到難處就促使與神親近,最能使你忍耐接受神的幫助,我們對神有多少信心和期望就可得多少的啟示。
「這些雖然很簡短,但是真正確的教義,使我們因賜下的救恩而真正完全順服神的啟示下,也真正宣告承認三而一的真神。」現在願你有個思想:完全將我的心靈獻上,單單尋求救恩,直接藉著溫柔、謙卑、忍耐和與神和好的力量,使我的生命有屬天的德性。
「並且要作這更大的事,因為我往父那裡去。」約翰福音十四章12節
祈禱不是叫我們適於那偉大的工作;祈禱本身就是偉大的工作。我們以為祈禱,是叫我們得到較高的能力,去應付神的工作。但按照耶穌基督的眼光看,祈禱是我本已救贖的奇蹟,藉著神的能力,同時也是別人救贖的奇蹟。結果子之方法,是祈禱,但須記取的,這種祈禱是建立在救贖的痛苦,不是建立於我的痛苦。一個小孩能獲得祈禱的答覆,一個聰明人反而得不著。
你無論在那裡祈禱總是一種戰爭。不管神製造環境的方法怎樣,本分就是祈禱。切不可如此作想──「我所在的地方,不見得有用;」因為你不在的地方,你必沒有有用。無論神安排你在那裡,祈禱,常常向祂祈禱。「你們若奉我的名求甚麼,我必成就。」(約十四13)我們不肯祈禱,我們得不著奮興,就不肯祈禱,那就是靈性自私的極度形態。我們要依照神的指導而勞動,但祂指導我們的是祈禱,「所以你們當求莊稼的主,打發工人出去,收祂的莊稼。
通常的工人對於工作,是沒有興奮的,但是成功通常是工作勞作出來的;同樣基督的概念,沒有那些勞苦的聖徒是不會發現的。你慇勤祈禱,從神的立場看,是無時不發生效果的。當帕子揭開,一種說不出的驚奇必然發現,你可以看出你是慣於接受耶穌基督的命令的,已經為祂收穫了不少的靈魂。
「……亞伯拉罕信神……」羅馬書四章3節
亞伯拉罕的信心是向著神本身的,他認識帶領他的神,所以他對神有絕對的信心。
亞伯拉罕一生的秘訣在於他與神的友誼。他所認識的神是一位偉大、良善、信實的朋友。無怪乎他能聽神的話,從他自身所愛的本家本族出來,走向一條未知的道路。
除了信靠神的話語,我們是否已學會把自己全然交給神呢?神有無限的愛及力量,祂是與我們立約的主並永遠的好朋友。
經上告訴我們,亞伯拉罕因著信心而榮耀了神。最能榮耀神的辦法,乃是讓世人看見神是誰,以及祂的大能力。神並不希望藉著我們所能做的事,讓世人知道祂能做什麼;神也不用那些有乖謬性格的器皿。相反的,祂一直在找尋那些謙卑的人,並用這些人在世世代代中榮耀祂。